Multi-region processing method for single image deraining

Outdoor imaging often suffers from the negative effects of the rain streaks, which would lead to the distortion of image contents. Most of the existing deraining approaches propose to build prior models to formulate the appearance of rain streaks and image features. However, these works deal with the rain streaks removal on the whole image regions. This may lead to the image regions without rain streaks distorted. In this paper, we proposed a new method for simultaneously investigating the candidates of rain streaks and image restoration. We use the L0 sparsity regularization for rain region estimation , and apply the framelet with L0 norm to protect the sharpen images. Our method only processes the regions with rain streaks and leaves other regions free. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on rain streak removal and image restoration.